{"id":20277,"date":"2022-03-25T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/open-bee-portal\/user-guide\/workflow\/workflow-monitoring\/starting-and-stopping-the-workflow\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:47:34","slug":"starting-and-stopping-the-workflow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/open-bee-portal\/user-guide\/workflow\/workflow-monitoring\/starting-and-stopping-the-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting and stopping the workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To start processing documents through the created validation circuit, it is necessary for the workflow supervisor to start the workflow, if this action has not already been performed by the administrator who created the workflow.<\/p>\n\n<p>To do this, click on the &#8220;List of Workflows&#8221; tab and click on the green arrow next to the workflow you want to start.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/273907768-translated.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>An orange icon indicates that the workflow has started.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/273907769-translated.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Clicking on the same icon will stop the workflow.<\/p>\n\n<p>When a workflow is stopped, a message appears asking whether or not to associate the documents the next time the workflow starts.<\/p>\n\n<p>Documents coming in during the workflow stop can either:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>be processed when the workflow is restarted<\/li><li>never be treated<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/273907771-translated.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You can pause or stop the workflow at any time.<\/p><cite>Documents that are already waiting to be processed in the workflow will be able to be processed by users, but no new documents will be added to the workflow.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The functions for stopping and starting a workflow can also be accessed from the workflow administration interface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start processing documents through the created validation circuit, it is necessary for the workflow supervisor to start the workflow, if this action has not already been performed by the administrator who created the workflow. To do this, click on the &#8220;List of Workflows&#8221; tab and click on the green arrow next to the workflow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":20272,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/ob-help-products.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38735,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20277\/revisions\/38735"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}